Artinian rings with supersolvable adjoint group. (Q943337)

The adjoint group \(R^\circ\) of the associative ring \(R\), not necessarily with identity, consists of all the elements of \(R\) which have an inverse with respect to the circle operation \(a\circ b=a+b+ab\). The author investigates the supersolvability of this group for finite rings \(R\). The main result shows that if \(R\) is a finite ring and \(R^\circ\) is supersolvable, then \(R\) is Lie supersolvable. The converse is not true: an example is given of a finite local Lie supersolvable ring whose adjoint group is not supersolvable. A number of results which imply the supersolvability of the adjoint group by imposing certain conditions on a finite ring is also given. Typically, these conditions are on the factor ring \(R/J(R)\) where \(J(R)\) denotes the Jacobson radical of \(R\).